pkgadd(1M)

NAME
     pkgadd - transfer software package to the system

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/sbin/pkgadd [-d device] [-r response] [-n] [-a admin] [pkginst1
     [pkginst2[ . . . ]]]

     /usr/sbin/pkgadd -s spool [-d device] [pkginst1 [pkginst2[ . . . ]]]

DESCRIPTION
     pkgadd transfers the contents of a software package from the distribution
     medium or directory to install it onto the system.  Used without the -d
     option, pkgadd looks in the default spool directory for the package
     (/var/spool/pkg).  Used with the -s option, it reads the package to a
     spool directory instead of installing it.










     -d device Installs or copies a package from device.  device can be a full
               pathname to a directory (e.g., /var/tmp) or the identifiers for
               tape (e.g., /dev/rmt/tps?d?), floppy disk (e.g.,
               /dev/rdsk/fds?d?.3.5hi), or removable disk.  It can also be the
               device alias (for example, ctape1 for the cartridge tape
               drive).

     -r response
               Identifies a file or directory, response, which contains output
               from a previous pkgask session.  This file supplies the
               interaction responses that would be requested by the package in
               interactive mode.  response must be a full pathname.

     -n        Installation occurs in non-interactive mode.  The default mode
               is interactive.

     -a admin  Defines an installation administration file, admin, to be used
               in place of the default administration file.  The token none
               overrides the use of any admin file, and thus forces
               interaction with the user.  Unless a full path name is given,
               pkgadd looks in the /var/sadm/install/admin directory for the
               file.

     pkginst   Specifies the package instance or list of instances to be
               installed.  The token all may be used to refer to all packages
               available on the source medium.  The format pkginst.* can be
               used to indicate all instances of a package.  When using this
               format, enclose the command line in single quotes to prevent
               the shell from interpreting the * character.

     -s spool  Reads the package into the directory spool instead of
               installing it.
               When executed without options, pkgadd users /var/spool/pkg (the
               default spool directory).

NOTES
     When transferring a package to a spool directory, the -r, -n, and -a
     options cannot be used.

     The -r option can be used to indicate a directory name as well as a
     filename.  The directory can contain numerous response files, each
     sharing the name of the package with which it should be associated.  This
     would be used, for example, when adding multiple interactive packages
     with one invocation of pkgadd.  Each package would need a response file.
     If you create response files with the same name as the package (that is,
     package1 and package2), then name the directory in which these files
     reside after the -r.

     The -n option will cause the installation to halt if any interaction is
     needed to complete it.

     Creating the file /var/inst/.nopkg will cause pkgadd to ignore the
     inst(1M) database.

FILES
     /var/inst/.nopkg

SEE ALSO
     inst(1M), installf(1M), pkgadd(1M), pkgask(1M), pkgchk(1), pkginfo(1),
     pkgmk(1), pkgparam(1), pkgproto(1), pkgtrans(1), pkgrm(1M).